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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The month following March and preceding May
Synonyms:
Apr; April
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Apr" is a kind of...):
Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)
Meronyms (parts of "Apr"):
All Fools' day; April Fools'; April Fools' day (the first day of April which is celebrated by playing practical jokes)
April 14; Pan American Day (a day celebrating political and economic unity among American countries)
Patriot's Day (the 3rd Monday in April; Massachusetts and Maine celebrate the battle of Lexington and Concord in 1775)
mid-April (the middle part of April)
Holonyms ("Apr" is a part of...):
Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)
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